A 26-minute crash course on why Brazilian filmmakers told European cinema to hold their caipirinha.
Documentary in four parts on Latin American cinema. First episode: the influences of Cahiers du cinéma, the New Wave, Italian neorealism. In Brazil, Cinema Novo draws inspiration from these models while drawing on the historical and cultural singularity of the country. The documentary was awarded the Prix Makhila d’or at the Festival de Biarritz, France.
Direction
Lichy packs decades of film history into bite-sized chaos.
Production
Rare archival interviews with Cinema Novo legends still alive.
Director
Atahualpa Lichy
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The title references a 1971 Brazilian satire about colonialism—meta commentary on who gets to tell whose story.
Raúl Ruiz appears here pre-exile; within years he'd flee Pinochet's Chile, making this a time capsule of pre-dictatorship Latin American intellectual networks.
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